Part I. Foundations. Social ecological economics -- A critical and realist approach to ecological economics -- Part II. Heterodox thought on the environment. Critical institutional economics -- Political ecology and unequal exchange -- Ecofeminism -- Ecological Marxism and ecological economics: from misunderstanding to meaningful dialogue -- Post Keynesian economics and sustainable development Eric -- Evolutionary economics -- Part III. Biophysical reality and its implications. Thermodynamics: relevance, implications, misuse and ways forward -- Geophysical limits, raw material use and their policy implications -- Social metabolism -- The biophysical realities of ecosystems -- Coevolutionary social ecological economics -- Part IV. Society, power and politics. Theories of power -- The imperial mode of living -- A guide to environmental justice movements and the language of ecological distribution conflicts -- Social movements and resistance -- Part V. Markets, production and consumption. Unregulated markets and the transformation of society -- Theory of the firm -- Theories of (un)sustainable consumption -- Work and leisure: money, identity and playfulness -- Part VI. Value and ethics. Pluralism and incommensurability -- Intrinsic values and economic valuation -- Needs as a central element of sustainable development -- Future generations -- Part VII. Science and society: uncertainty and precaution. Precautionary appraisal as a response to risk, uncertainty, ambiguity and ignorance -- Safe minimum standards: addressing strong uncertainty -- Post-normal science -- Part VIII. Methods. The NUSAP approach to uncertainty appraisal and communication -- Multiple criteria evaluation in environmental policy analysis -- Multicriteria mapping -- Q methodology -- Participation in the context of ecological economics -- Deliberative monetary valuation -- Participatory modelling in ecological economics: lessons from practice -- Input-output analysis -- Sustainability indicators -- Part IX. Policy challenges. Commons -- Uneven development and resource extractivism in Africa --Mining conflicts -- Peak-Oil and ecological economics -- Human induced climate change from a political economy perspective -- Ecosystem services -- Part X. Future post-growth society. Degrowth and democracy -- The steady state economy -- Post-growth economics -- The bioregional economy: celebrating the local in production and consumption -- The coming sustainable city -- Eco-social enterprises -- Democracy, participation and social planning.
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"The Routledge Handbook of Ecological Economics provides a guide to the literature on ecological economics in an informative and easily accessible form. It is essential reading for those interested in exploring and understanding the interactions between the social, ecological and economic and is an important resource for those interested in fields such as: human ecology, political ecology, environmental politics, human geography, environmental management, environmental evaluation, future and transition studies, environmental policy, development studies and heterodox economics."--Publisher's description.